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Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance planned
Scotland has invented a new benefit! :)
Like-for-like benefit to support seamless transition.
Plans for a Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance, a new benefit to provide continued support to around 66,000 adults with a disability or long-term health condition, have been unveiled.
Under new proposals, eligible people who receive Disability Living Allowance through the UK Government’s Department for Work and Pensions would have their award transferred automatically to the new Scottish benefit. They would then have the opportunity to apply for Adult Disability Payment if they choose.
Legislation to create the ‘closed’ benefit – for existing recipients of the Disability Living Allowance that it supersedes – will be laid in the Scottish Parliament this year.
https://www.gov.scot/news/scottish-adult-disability-living-allowance-planned/
S2,
When I first seen this yesterday my first thought was that it is to protect people on the Low Rate of DLA care.
Jim
... They would then have the opportunity to apply for Adult Disability Payment if they choose.
Though not if they were over 65 in 2013, as I understand it? See Cohort A.